Who is Prospero Covar?

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Probing onthe Filipino values of pagkataong pangloob, pagakataong panglabas, and pakikipagkapwa are among Dr. Prospero R. Covar's valuable contribution to the study of Philippine society and culture.

In his pioneering research study on the Watawat ng Lahi, a millenarian social movement founded in 1936 in Calamba, in his native province of Laguna, he found such worldview among its leaders and members, which they gained from worship experiences for their home-grown cult hero Gat Jose Rizal.

Covar expounded on three kinds of local knowledge that frames the Filipino psyche: the unquestionable knowledge relating to God; the natural human knowledge possessed from their interaction with the environment and nature; and forced knowledge which may not be according to God's will.

Like other anthropologists who analyzed social phenomena from a structural functionalist lens, Covar values interrelated social organizations and institutions which function to maintain the social system. His study of Filipino religious consciousness or more commonly termed as "folk spirituality" led him to traverse anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, linguistics and folk literature. His writings covered a wide range of related themes such as Sikolohiyang Filipino (Filipino psyche and personhood), folklore, religious leadership, post-colonial history, and social organizations.

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